Biography & Autobiography - Jewish
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of AuschwitzNational Jewish Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time--from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni"As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the...
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of AuschwitzNational Jewish Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time--from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni"As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the...
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Conversations with My Rabbi: Timeless Teachings for a Fractured WorldA radically hopeful exploration of faith, identity, morality, and purpose grounded in timeless Jewish principles, captured in a series of profound conversations between Nikki Goldstein and the man who saved her life and became her spiritual mentor, Rabbi Eli Schlanger--whose teachings and wisdom endure...
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Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians who lived through Fascism and the HolocaustIt takes victims, blood, and years to rid a country of tyranny. Those are words of a Jewish Italian woman who lived during Fascism and the Holocaust. Italian Fascism was thuggish and promised order during the chaotic post World War I period. But in...
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Degas at the Gas Station: EssaysIn his latest collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one's life. Weaving together a charming set of autobiographical stories, Beller interrogates the randomness and contingencies...
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-BelsenOne of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "A deeply moving memoir, beautifully written and researched." --Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of...
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-BelsenOne of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "A deeply moving memoir, beautifully written and researched." --Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of...
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Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter's Fight for Survival during the Holocaust"Seldom do writers on the Holocaust have access to diaries from both a mother and her daughter. With these materials in hand, Pauline Steinhorn crafted a wonderful book about her mother and grandmother, retelling, often in their own voices, the story of their struggles."...
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Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter's Fight for Survival during the Holocaust"Seldom do writers on the Holocaust have access to diaries from both a mother and her daughter. With these materials in hand, Pauline Steinhorn crafted a wonderful book about her mother and grandmother, retelling, often in their own voices, the story of their struggles."...
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Dual Identities: Living in Meier's Shadow"[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative." -Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale UniversityA Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined."You hear nothing!" his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally Finkelstein...
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Dual Identities: Living in Meier's Shadow"[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative." - Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale UniversityA Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined."You hear nothing!" his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally...
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Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures"'It was at summer camp in northern Wisconsin in 1953 that I first met Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing. He was twelve years old and he had a guitar. He would go around telling everybody that he was going to be a rock-and-roll star. I...
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Edmond de Rothschild: Finding ZionAn absorbing portrait of Edmond de Rothschild, who defied his class to help build a nation--and found his identity in the processEdmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) was born into one of the wealthiest families in history, but his legacy lies beyond banking, art, and aristocratic...
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Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, MailerLeonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life. They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses...
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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from WesterborkFor the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of...
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Every Body Beloved: A Jewish Embrace of FatnessAuthor: Minna BrombergPublisher: Wayne State University PressPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 6.08h x 6.12w x 0.74dISBN: 9780814352113About the AuthorRabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg is passionate about bringing her three decades of experience in fat activism to writing, teaching, and change-making at the nexus of...
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Evitchka: A True Story of Survival, Hope and LoveBefore World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenné, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to the luck, determination, and resilience of her parents and the...
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Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the WertheimersJean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the...
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust SurvivorThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his experiences with the Nazis, his will to...
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the HolocaustINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock...
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